Blacks, on average, are the most directly critical
people I have ever met: “Dat shirt stupid. Yo’ kid a bastard. Yo’ lips big.” Unlike whites, who tread gingerly around the subject of race, they can be brutally to the point. Once I needed to send a student
to the office to deliver a message. I asked for volunteers, and suddenly you would think my classroom was a bastion of civic engagement. Thirty dark hands shot into the air. My students loved to
leave the classroom and slack off, even if just for a few minutes, away from the eye of white authority. I picked a light-skinned boy to deliver the message. One
very black student was indignant: “You pick da half-breed.” And immediately other blacks take up the cry, and half a dozen mouths are screaming, “He
half-breed.”

Even so, hatred perpetuates and there is a LOT of generational hating, to the point of defining cultures etc.

But to be the bigger person and break the cycle is to instigate change. It IS that simple if we all just treat each other as equals.
It'll separate those willing to achieve from people who hide behind stereotypes

The problem is people think that the way to treat others equally is by erasing their sex, skin color, or sexuality. To erase how they've been wronged and how others could prevent it from happening again all because we don't want to know we might be a part of their problem.

I do see where you're coming from, but I think instead the segregation and blame fall on all of us as a whole. Different cultures are a beautiful thing, but we all need to accept that we're ALL human. One race, like how you have different species of birds/ they're still all birds aye?

To eradicate the "us and them" ethos would allow us to all take responsibility for ourselves, and everyone else by proxy.